[ic] GRRRRRRR SRY - Can't Connect To MySQL

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Tim Böckers)]

On Sunday 21 April 2002  5:57 pm, you wrote:
> At 02:01 PM 4/21/02, you wrote:
> >Having a problem setting up a new site w/ MySQL.  I've set several up and
> >never had this problem.
> >
> >In the error.txt file:
> >
> >Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
> >
try to look for the socket file in a different location. i found it in the 
installation dir for mysql (/usr/local/mysql) and then resolved it the dirty 
way with a softlink ln -s etc... i'm sure that if you compile it from source 
you should have some option to define the socket location though.

hth,
tim